The influence of spear fishing on species composition and size of groupers on patch reefs in the upper Florida keys

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 388-392

  Sluka, Robert D ^a   Sullivan, Kathleen M ^b  

^a Oceanographic Society of Maldives   (Maldives)

^b NONE

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